The Travel Bakery

Many people ask me how I book my trips, how I save money, how I find cheap accommodation, how to make Italian coffee and what I use to treat my curly hair. Here’s a comprehensive list of all travel and blogging resources I use and check constantly (sorry, I won’t reveal what conditioner I’m using). If you’re using something you believe it’s useful, please leave a comment below and I’ll update the page.

Happy traveling!

Cheap flights

In my humble opinion the best tool to compare airfares. The ‘bring me anywhere’ feature and the flexibility in selecting the dates make Skyscanner very powerful. The app is available even for my Windows Phone

Transport

My go-to bus company in Europe. WiFi, minibar, and power sockets on board make the ride quite enjoyable. Furthermore, it is in continuous expansion and has competitive prices – probably the lowest in the market.

Useful if you are planning a trip and you don’t have any idea about how you are going to reach your destination. It is a good starting point, but I suggest an in-deep research as many little companies are not mentioned.

Volunteering abroad

Workaway is great for finding a volunteer job abroad. With more than 22000 hosts all over the world, it’s the biggest platform of its kind. The annual subscription is 23 € or 30 € if you register as a couple. They keep a wonderful blog full of useful information and direct volunteering experiences.

Talk talk BnB is a relatively new website which gathers people looking forward to improving a language or learn a new one. You will be required to spend some hours a day to teach a language for accommodation and sometimes food.

Travel Insurance

Free accommodation

Couchsurfing is probably the most known website for free accommodation. It’s quite world spread and there are many hosts willing to give you a couch. Rules are kind of strict and now you are limited to 10 requests a week; to unblock this limit, you have to become a verified user – the cost is 25 $. For these reasons and others, many people are moving to other hospitality platforms like the next ones.

The cool stuff about Trustroots is that you can join tribes which fit you the most. Some of them: buskers, musicians, vegans&vegetarians, hitchhikers. The website is very user-friendly and I’m personally looking forward to being a host when I’ll be able to. The guys who made it are the same behind hitchwiki, the encyclopedia of hitchhiking.

Cheap accommodation

AirBnB got more and more customers over the past years. I used it many times and never had problems. If you are booking for the first time, click HERE to receive a $30 discount if you spend at least 65$ (that easy, no trick!)

Blogging resources

Siteground’s hosting and support service are regarded as one of the best on the World Wide Web. It represents the (probably) safest way to start (even though not the cheapest) and I chose it after reading tons of reviews and comparison with other services. I’ll soon write an in-depth review!

I bought my X theme from this awesome team. Fantastic support, endless customizability (which I am not exploiting at all), tutorials for nearly everything, SEO friendly and all you are looking for your website theme. Expensive, but well worth the price. They also offer a hosting service.

Udemy.com is an online repository of courses that span from photography to video editing, from statistics to programming. Some of them are free, others are paid. Subscribe to the newsletter to receive loads of discounts for 10 $ courses.

This beautiful-looking app comes with a desktop version (both for Mac OS and Windows) plus it is available on the App Store and Google Play. I use it daily to manage daily tasks and for keep order in mind. As soon as I recall I have to do something, I add it to the list. You can organize tasks in projects.

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